Winston - Hmm, the first couple pages have me a little skeptical, I have to admit. So far, Winston is out to suggest that we are NOT in the middle of an Information Revolution, and it comes across as shock-value academics rather than sincere scholarship. He also uses words that my English professor expressly told me to avoid, lest I give the reader the impression I'm trying to impress them with style and not substance. Hopefully I'm wrong here.

What is good to note is the development of digital communication potential in direct development with the understanding of electricity itself. It's odd to consider the telegraph wasn't the first exploration of remote electric communication. I'd never even heard of the 'galvanometer' until this reading.

Necessity prompts invention. The railways, and the danger involved in sending communication, prompted the telegraph? Maybe this section sets the precedent for patterns of invention. Widespread need + available technology + existing infrastructure = invention.

Little innovations can affect for drastic format changes. The technology involved in Morse

Interesting to note the perception of electric communication being presented on such a raw spectrum of 'good & evil', by the US Postal Office no less. But strange to note that the telegram's potential wasn't instantly recognized on a widespread level.